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Author: Birgit Larsen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Danes in U.S. Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
In the making of this book, authors from the United States and Denmark have joined forces in describing many different aspects of both emigration and assimilation.
Author: Birgit Larsen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Danes in U.S. Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
In the making of this book, authors from the United States and Denmark have joined forces in describing many different aspects of both emigration and assimilation.
Author: Anne Lisbeth Olsen Publisher: Aalborg, Denmark : Danes Worldwide Archives in collaboration with the Danish Society for Emigration History ISBN: Category : Danes United States History Sources Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
"In letters to their homeland, Danes who emigrated to North America from 1842 to 1946 here give vivid, personal impressions of how they began life anew, far from the familiar surroundings of home. Passages selected by the authors from among more than a thousand emigrant letters provide a unique glimpse of life on the American prairie as well as on Chicago's notorious South Side. The narratives are presented in a series of themes, ranging from the crossing of the Atlantic to an inside look at the United States. Although few regretted the decision to emigrate, nearly all suffered pangs of homesickness, and many attempted to imbue their children with a sense of "Danishness." These Danes of the past come alive as they describe both successes and failures in their own words. It is the hope of the Danes Worldwide Archives that "A New Life" will help to strengthen the historical identity of Danish-Americans"--Back cover.
Author: Sarah J. Bushey Publisher: ISBN: 9780578793542 Category : Danish Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Danish Immigration to Nineteenth Century America: Family as a Motivating Force" explores the impact of the family on emigration from the Danish homeland, immigration to a new world, assimilation into a new culture, and determination to achieve their hopes and dreams.
Author: Mark Mussari Publisher: Facts On File ISBN: 9780877548713 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 116
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Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Danes, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Author: Jeffrey W. Hancks Publisher: MSU Press ISBN: 160917044X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 131
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The Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, are commonly grouped together by their close historic, linguistic, and cultural ties. Their age-old bonds continued to flourish both during and after the period of mass immigration to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scandinavians felt comfortable with each other, a feeling forged through centuries of familiarity, and they usually chose to live in close proximity in communities throughout the Upper Midwest of the United States. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century and continuing until the 1920s, hundreds of thousands left Scandinavia to begin life in the United States and Canada. Sweden had the greatest number of its citizens leave for the United States, with more than one million migrating between 1820 and 1920. Per capita, Norway was the country most affected by the exodus; more than 850,000 Norwegians sailed to America between 1820 and 1920. In fact, Norway ranks second only to Ireland in the percentage of its population leaving for the New World during the great European migration. Denmark was affected at a much lower rate, but it too lost more than 300,000 of its population to the promise of America. Once gone, the move was usually permanent; few returned to live in Scandinavia. Michigan was never the most popular destination for Scandinavian immigrants. As immigrants began arriving in the North American interior, they settled in areas to the west of Michigan, particularly in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and North and South Dakota. Nevertheless, thousands pursued their American dream in the Great Lakes State. They settled in Detroit and played an important role in the city’s industrial boom and automotive industry. They settled in the Upper Peninsula and worked in the iron and copper mines. They settled in the northern Lower Peninsula and worked in the logging industry. Finally, they settled in the fertile areas of west Michigan and contributed to the state’s burgeoning agricultural sector. Today, a strong Scandinavian presence remains in town names like Amble, in Montcalm County, and Skandia, in Marquette County, and in local culinary delicacies like æbleskiver, in Greenville, and lutefisk, found in select grocery stores throughout the state at Christmastime.
Author: Birgit Larsen
Author: Birgit Larsen
Author: Anne Lisbeth Olsen
Author: Kristian Hvidt
Author: Sarah J. Bushey
Author: Kristian Hvidt
Author: Mark Mussari
Author: Henning Bender
Author: Steffen Elmer Jørgensen
Author: Marion Tuttle Marzolf
Author: Jeffrey W. Hancks